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Out there, it’s wolf eat wolf. Upcoming horror-thriller Wolf Mother, about two outlaws on the path to find abducted children by any means necessary, has released a bloody new trailer in preparation for the film’s digital release next month, through JoBlo.com. The multi genre film, which is written and directed by Erik Peter Carlson (“Transatlantic(…)

The Final Chapter In The Big Book Of Zombie Killing February 2017 sees the release of the final Resident Evil film in the long-running live-action movie franchise led by Milla Jovovich, Resident Evil: The Final Chapter. Since 2002, the video game franchise has released 5 live-action movies, with the sixth coming next February. Once more(…)

THE UNKINDNESS OF RAVENS, the much anticipated second feature from Lawrie Brewster (Lord of Tears) will have its world premiere at London’s FrightFest. The film tells the story of Andrew, a homeless veteran suffering from PTSD. Haunted by flashbacks of a traumatic event he witnessed while serving in the armed forces, Andrew travels to a(…)

We are excited (and a little bit scared) to share with you the brand new trailer for LIGHTS OUT, which is based on the horror short that went viral and comes from horror uber-producer James Wan and stars Teresa Palmer, Gabriel Bateman, Billy Burke, Alexander DiPersia and Maria Bello. LIGHTS OUT is released in UK(…)

From executive producer Ben Wheatley (director of Kill List and High-Rise) comes this knife-edged thriller about a gang of mercenary soldiers who take cover in an abandoned bulldog tank – only to find the real enemy is within.

Uncork’d Entertainment has acquired US and Canadian rights to the horror-thriller The Shelter, with both a theatrical and digital release planned for the fall. Written and directed by John Fallon and produced by Fallon and Donny Broussard, The Shelter – which screened at last years London Frightfest – stars Michael Paré (Eddie and the Cruisers, The(…)

Director Michael Aguiar’s indie slasher The Laughing Mask, scripted by Aguiar and starring John Hardy, Sheyenne Rivers, Gabriel Lee and Jeffrey Jenkins, has been acquired by Leomark Studios for digital, bowing on June 24th.

Taggart Productions and Felt Films have teamed up with Latino-Review Media (LRM) for the horror/sci-fi series Dark-Web. The eight-part anthology series revolves around the mysterious disappearance of a young Cyber-security analyst and the trail of stories she leaves behind for her friends to unravel.

Set in a world in which humanity has already won a war against an almost-apocalyptic zombie outbreak, The ReZort is a highly controlled zombie safari retreat with trained security personnel protecting the guests 24/7. That is until the resort’s security system is hacked and a computer virus crashes it, potentially unleashing thousands of bloodthirsty zombies(…)

For many out there Blumhouse are the current kings of horror, however the more hardened horror fans know where it’s really at – the Canadian-based Black Fawn Films. Responsible for some of the best fear-flicks of recent years – films such as Antisocial, The Drownsman and Bite – Black Fawn Films have once again teamed(…)

Arrow Video are no strangers to releasing the weird and wonderful of cinema, and particularly genre pictures, with wonderful packages, containing swathes of extras, considered remastered sound and picture and collectible packaging to boot, and with their upcoming Killer Dames double pack it looks like they will continue this fine tradition.

Isla Fisher-led horror Visions is set for a June 20th release in the UK on both DVD and Digital HD formats. Leaving her hectic city lifestyle behind, young mother-to-be Eveleigh (Isla Fisher, Now You See Me), joins her husband David (Anson Mount, Safe), at their beautiful new vineyard home only to be plagued by terrifying noises and visions(…)

Ben and Chris Blaine, writer-directors of acclaimed indie “horror” movie Nina Forever, will introduce a special pre-DVD release big screen screening of the film at London’s ArtHouse Cinema, at 10.45pm on Friday, February 12. Tickets are selling fast, and are available here.

Acclaimed Austrian horror Goodnight Mommy (original title: Ich Seh Ich Seh, or “I see, I see”) is getting a UK release, courtesy of Vertigo Films, on March 4. The film, a chilling psychological thriller in the vein of Austrian horrors like Funny Games and Michael, is written and directed by Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala, and produced by Ulrich Seidl, director(…)

Save the date: Drafthouse Films has confirmed March 25 as the theatrical and VOD release date for Jennifer’s Body director Karyn Kusama’s The Invitation, a psychological thriller set at a dinner party thrown by Eden (Tammy Blanchard) and her new husband David (Michiel Huisman), to which Eden’s ex-husband Will (Logan Marshall-Green) is surprised to be invited. Unfolding over one dark evening in(…)

The FrightFest Presents digital film imprint, a collaboration between the FrightFest organisation and Icon, with titles available through assorted digital partners, has unveiled its second wave of titles. Starting on Leap Day, February 29, the label will release two films per week for three consecutive Mondays, with The Lesson and Last Girl Standing as the first(…)

Koch Media has announced a UK release for The Stranger, the new film from producer Eli Roth and director Guillermo Amoedo (Aftershock, The Green Inferno), which arrives in the UK on VOD on October 5 before hitting DVD on November 6.

Following the UK premiere at FrightFest 2015 in August, Alistair Legrand’s The Diabolical, starring Ali Larter, will be released in select UK Cinemas and on VOD platforms on October 16 and DVD October 19. Madison, a single mother of two, is awoken nightly by an increasingly strange and intense presence. She seeks help from her scientist boyfriend Nikolai,(…)

Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment has announced that British horror Let Us Prey will be released in the UK on September 28 (digital) and October 19 (DVD), giving streamers and downloaders a three-week window over DVD fans.

20th Century Fox’s bold new take on the Frankenstein tale, Victor Frankenstein, has been pushed back – again – this time to November, trading release dates with fellow Fox film The Martian. That means the UK might get the film nearly two months before its US release, as the UK date – so far – hasn’t budged.

Severin Films’ acclaimed documentary Lost Soul – The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr Moreau will make its US Blu-ray and DVD debut on July 14, packed with more special features than Dr Moreau’s abominable animal/human hybrids.

When a man (Wes Bentley) wakes up strapped to a bed and with no memory, he is greeted by a mysterious and sinister woman (Kate Bosworth) claiming to be his wife, in Unconscious (aka Amnesiac), a new suspense thriller co-written by Mike Le (Dark Summer) and directed by Bosworth’s husband, Michael Polish (Northfork).

Video game movies are coming back, or at the very least a Dead Rising film is on its way. The Capcom franchise, which mixes open-world adventure with fast-paced zombie-killing action and the creative joy of a world of weapons to try your hand at taking the undead down a few limbs, is launching its first(…)

StudioCanal has acquired the UK rights to Bruce McDonald’s “future Halloween classic” Hellions, in which Chloe Rose stars as a pregnant teenager who must survive a Halloween night from hell when malevolent trick-or-treaters come knocking at her door, determined to claim her unborn child. With the help of the local sheriff (Terminator 2’s Robert Patrick),(…)

Indie horror maverick James Cullen Bressack has had his ups and downs lately, with his 2013 film Hate Crime being effectively banned in the UK, and To Jennifer (also 2013) released in April through VOD platform TheHorrorShow.TV’s new partnership with blog Nerdly. His latest film, Pernicious, has been set for release in the US on June 19 – and it looks bloody delicious.

As reported by home entertainment trade insider The Raygun, UK distributors Eureka/Monster Pictures report that The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence) is creeping towards BBFC certification – though the British certification body’s problems with the film’s predecessor means that the film must be seen by a BBFC director before it can be officially rated for the release in the(…)

London’s film lovers are to be treated to the ultimate pop-up cinema experience this Spring as classic films including An American Werewolf in London (which has a famous scene set on the London Underground) are aired in one of the city’s most evocative settings: a disused Underground station.

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer director John McNaughton’s triumphant return to the horror genre, The Harvest (which received its UK premiere at FrightFest 2014), is coming to the UK in June, with a snazzy new title: Can’t Come Out to Play.

Icon Film Distribution (IFD) and FrightFest, the UK’s leading horror fantasy film festival, have entered into an exclusive partnership that will see IFD releasing FrightFest curated films under the banner ‘FrightFest Presents’.

Undeterred by the recent BBFC ban of their planned first release, Nerdly.co.uk and TheHorrorShow.TV have put the Hate Crime affair behind them and are set to release another film by writer-director James Cullen Bressack: To Jennifer.

VOD platform TheHorrorShow.TV, the UK’s home of horror on demand, has unveiled a rash of new titles due to come on-stream at the only VOD platform dedicated to British horror fans. Hot on the heels of recent releases such as The House of Him, The Ghastly Loves of Johnny X, Extraterrestrial, Bedlam, Nightmare, Chastity Bites and The Culling, which collectively took our selection of(…)

As reported in Deadline, The Big Bang Theory‘s Johnny Galecki (previously seen in I Know What You Did Last Summer) is currently shooting Rings, the third instalment of the $400m franchise inspired by 1998 J-horror Ringu (itself based on the novel by Koji Suzuki).

Tom Hiddleston has been cast as Cenobite ‘Pinhead’ in Clive Barker’s Hellraiser remake, due to go before the cameras later this year. “I think the phrase is ‘reboot’”, Barker told Entertainment Weekly in November last year, “although I’ve never really understood what that meant.”

Brace yourselves for “the first ever feature-length horror film to be shot entirely on an iPhone” (it says here, although we seem to recall James Cullen Bressack’s To Jennifer being shot on an iPhone 5 around the same time) when Hooked Up (2013) arrives on UK DVD on April 27, courtesy of Signature Entertainment.

James Cullen Bressack, director of Hate Crime, which was last week denied a certificate by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), has released an impassioned response to a Huffington Post article by Simon Thompson, which claimed that censors were right to ban the film.

A crowdfunding campaign is now underway to fund The Devil on Wheels, a feature-length documentary about the making of Duel, Steven Spielberg’s hugely successful 1971 TV movie, and the cult that surrounds it. The campaign will run for the next 30 days in an all-or-nothing basis. The project’s goal is to achieve a minimum of £60,000 that will enable(…)

Hate Crime, the first release in a new joint VOD venture between geek blog Nerdly.co.uk and TheHorrorShow.TV – the UK’s home of horror on demand – has officially been denied certification by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC). It is one of only four horror movies officially refused classification by the body body since 2009,(…)

Critically-acclaimed horror film It Follows hit 190 UK cinemas on Friday, grossing a highly respectable £370k on its first weekend. This compares to fellow indie horror The Babadook‘s £348k from 147 screens (a slightly higher screen average), although the Australian film, which opened late October, arguably benefitted from the horror genre’s traditional Halloween bump.

Horror-themed VOD platform TheHorrorShow.TV has six more movies scheduled for the coming weeks, including the UK premieres of Dark Summer, Leprechaun’s Revenge and Bedlam. The scary sextet joins the other 250 films, many of them exclusives, on the UK’s home of horror on demand, which offers pay-as-you-go (stream or download) or Netflix-style monthly subscription, which(…)

Remember Late Phases, the werewolves-in-a-retirement-community movie which received its UK premiere at FrightFest 2014? Here’s a reminder of our review. Following its sold-out screening, the film was picked up by Metrodome in the UK, and has now been scheduled for release on April 20, under a new name: Night of the Wolf: Late Phases. No sleeve artwork(…)

Horror fans can celebrate a St. Patrick’s Day with a difference on March 17 as Leprechaun’s Revenge comes to VOD via TheHorrorShow.TV on March 9. Released in the US as Red Clover, the film is directed by Drew Daywalt and written by Anthony C. Ferrante (Sharknado), stars Billy Zane, William Devane and Courtney Halverson.

Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy—The Making of Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street, described as “the ultimate look at the scary, thrilling and groundbreaking 1984 film”, is now available from publisher Red Rover Books.

Stonehearst Asylum, the gothic psychological thriller starring Kate Beckinsale, Jim Sturgess, David Thewlis, Jason Flemying, Brendan Gleeson, Sir Ben Kingsley and Sir Michael Caine, will be released in the UK this April, courtesy of Lionsgate. The film, based on a short story by Edgar Allen Poe, is directed by Brad Anderson (The Machinist, Transsiberian).

Here’s an interesting crowdfunding project: The Devil on Wheels, a feature-length documentary examining the making of and enduring cult surrounding Duel, Steven Spielberg’s 1971 made-for-TV movie in which a terrifying Peterbilt truck, whose driver we never see, chases a lone driver along the desert roads of Southern California. Such was its success that the film was extended and distributed as(…)

TheHorrorShow.TV – the UK’s home of horror on demand (also: the grown-ups behind this blog) – have announced the release of Robert Florence’s thought-provoking horror film The House of Him, which scorches onto VOD (stream or download) on Monday February 9.

Unhallowed Ground is a brand new British horror film starring Morgane Polanski, Poppy Drayton, Rachel Petladwala, Thomas Law, Marcus Griffiths, Paul Raschid (who also wrote the original screenplay), Will Thorp and Ameet Chana.

Content Films have confirmed a digital release of Dead Still, the new horror movie from Christopher Saint Booth and Philip Adrian Booth, the twin brothers behind such films as Death Tunnel, The Exorcist File, DarkPlace, The Possessed, Spooked, The Ghosts of Waverly Hills Sanatorium and Children of the Grave.

Reliably exciting UK distributor Arrow has set a DVD/VOD release date for Beneath, one of several as yet unreleased films screened at FrightFest 2013 back in August. Patrick Doody and Chris Valenziano’s trapped-miners tale of terror will be released in the UK on February 23. Read Scott Weinberg’s exclusive review after the jump.

Chop, the black comedy directed by Deadgirl and Cheap Thrills screenwriter Trent Haaga, is finally coming to the UK, four years after it made its debut courtesy of Bloody Disgusting and The Collective. The film, which stars Will Keenan, Timothy Muskatell and Chad Ferrin, will initially be available exclusively at horror VOD platform TheHorrorShow.TV from January 12, but will roll out on other(…)

“A clown isn’t funny in the moonlight,” Lon Chaney once said, and Eli Roth appears to agree: the prolific producer’s new film, Clown, is the terrifying story of a father who puts on a clown costume for his son’s birthday party – and finds he can’t take it off again.

Jessabelle, the new supernatural thriller directed by Kevin Greutert (Saw VI, Saw 3D: The Final Chapter), written by Reno 911!‘s Robert Ben Garant (who scripted Hell Baby and the original Night at the Museum) and starring Sarah Snook, Mark Webber and Joelle Carter, arrives in the UK on January 19 (digital download) and February 2 (DVD/VOD).

Some Interviews with Some Vampires If you think spending a lifetime in Wellington, New Zealand might be boring, imagine what spending many lifetimes in such a remote place might be like. No wonder 379-year-old vampire Viago (Taika Waititi) is bored enough to invite a documentary crew (from the New Zealand Documentary Board, no less) into(…)

One of the most hotly tipped films to come out of Cannes this year, David Robert Mitchell’s stylishly cool and beautifully shot second film, It Follows, has been given a UK release date of 27 February 2015, via Icon Film Distribution.

Horror-themed VOD platform TheHorrorShow.TV, “the home of horror on demand,” has added 12 new films to its newly-launched £2.99-per-month subscription service, including two cult classics and 10 films from UK label DLN Films.

Box office watchers will be familiar with the phrase “biggest ever”, which seems to crop up a couple of times a month when the performance of the latest blockbuster is trumpeted: “Biggest ever Thursday in October!” “Biggest ever non-holiday weekend opening for a non-sequel!” When the hype and the hyperbole die down, however, there are clear(…)

Crowdfunded creepfest Borley Rectory didn’t quite make its £10,000 target back in August, but that hasn’t stopped the people behind the film pushing forward with their unique animation project –and this week they’ve added a pretty special new perk to help them with completion funds for the production.

The Coming Race is, err… coming Iron Sky: The Coming Race, the hotly anticipated sequel to the 2012 hit about Nazis on the moon, is well underway with its crowdfunding campaign, which aims to raise $500,000 for production of the new film.